Word: stand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is taking another stab at solving one of its perennial problems: finding a new site for the car storage facilities now located across from Eliot House where the Kennedy Memorial Library will someday stand...
...there it was. One of the city's top editors was leading a drive to raise money to defend Chicago cops against charges that they had beaten up reporters during the Democratic National Convention. Although some Chicago editors had treated the police violence gingerly all along, the stand by Jack Mabley, associate editor of Chicago's American, disregarded any sympathy for the abused newsmen and started another caustic press controversy...
...radicals stage "huge demonstrations, go on television with their attacks on the government and the courts," Mabley said, they may raise as much as $200,000. He pleaded for $80,000 in donations to the police defense fund. "The time has come for the people of Chicago to stand up and be counted," he declared...
Special Feeling. Selected over 23 other competitors, Shrady is no stranger to religious sculpture. His striking figure of Lazarus rising from the dead stands in front of the St. Lazarus Oratory near the Pittsburgh Airport. A 25-ft. bronze of an ectomorphic St. Peter casting his net will soon stand in New York's Lincoln Center just across from the Metropolitan Opera House. A convert to Roman Catholicism, Shrady does secular commissions as well, but admits "I have a special feeling for religious art." He received only $28,000, well below his usual fee, for the Nazareth doors...
...large-scale ethnic dance companies sent around the world with in creasing frequency by almost any nation anxious to make its own culture known. One of the most dazzling of these troupes is Mexico's Ballet Folklorico, which just completed its seventh U.S. tour with a one-week stand at Manhattan's City Center. Once again it convinced audiences that hybrid artistry can create a language...